Within this First Harvest season of Lughnassadh, I have been mulling over a great many things.
One of the most profound is that I cannot recommend Christianity to anyone.
This may come as a surprise to many of you, given that I have never hidden either my being a Celtic Christian now, or that I spent most of my life (more than a few decades) within Thelemic/Hermetic Magick.
What I can tell you is this: Magic(k) is REAL. It works, although not all practitioners are really working it. Many of them are just pretending because it makes them look cool; one should always be aware of and watching out for the charlatans and fakirs/fakers.
Frankly, I really hate those guys. Anyone who has to try to make themselves something they are not in order to try to impress or pull the wool over someone else's eyes is less than despicable and I guarantee you, they WILL receive their just desserts. I do not believe they will like those desserts, but I have no pity upon them. No one should.
What I can also tell you is this: Jesus Christ is REAL, too. And, just like the fakirs/fakers of magic(k)(que) who pretend, there are also so-called 'Christians' who pretend. They pretend they are holy, they pretend they know more than you, they pretend they know whatever it is they're spouting off about. What most of them DO know is 'Christianese', a mystical language employing terminology that is rarely questioned and almost never truly EXPLAINED or PRACTICED in any way, shape, or form. Rather like Dianetics/the Church of Scientology, there's an 'alternative language' one learns to throw at everyone else in order to disguise the level of lostness that any one of them might be in at any given time.
( Read more... )
God never fails, but I do.
One of the most profound is that I cannot recommend Christianity to anyone.
This may come as a surprise to many of you, given that I have never hidden either my being a Celtic Christian now, or that I spent most of my life (more than a few decades) within Thelemic/Hermetic Magick.
What I can tell you is this: Magic(k) is REAL. It works, although not all practitioners are really working it. Many of them are just pretending because it makes them look cool; one should always be aware of and watching out for the charlatans and fakirs/fakers.
Frankly, I really hate those guys. Anyone who has to try to make themselves something they are not in order to try to impress or pull the wool over someone else's eyes is less than despicable and I guarantee you, they WILL receive their just desserts. I do not believe they will like those desserts, but I have no pity upon them. No one should.
What I can also tell you is this: Jesus Christ is REAL, too. And, just like the fakirs/fakers of magic(k)(que) who pretend, there are also so-called 'Christians' who pretend. They pretend they are holy, they pretend they know more than you, they pretend they know whatever it is they're spouting off about. What most of them DO know is 'Christianese', a mystical language employing terminology that is rarely questioned and almost never truly EXPLAINED or PRACTICED in any way, shape, or form. Rather like Dianetics/the Church of Scientology, there's an 'alternative language' one learns to throw at everyone else in order to disguise the level of lostness that any one of them might be in at any given time.
( Read more... )
God never fails, but I do.
Tags:
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}